Investigation of the mesoscale structure and volumetric features of biofilms using optical coherence tomography

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 844-853

  Wagner, Michael ^a   Taherzadeh, Danial ^a   Haisch, Christoph ^a   Horn, Harald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Mesoscale; Mesoscopic structure; Optical coherence tomography; Porosity

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; BIOFILM STRUCTURE; CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; HETEROTROPHIC BIOFILM; IMAGE STACKS; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MACRO SCALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MICROSCOPY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; MESOSCOPIC STRUCTURE; MICROSCOPIC METHODS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS; VOLUMETRIC FEATURES; VOLUMETRIC POROSITY;

BIOFILMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POROSITY; SCANNING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOFILTERS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLOW KINETICS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POROSITY;

BIOFILMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77958616320     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22864     Document Type: Article

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